A Perfect Circle: Blue Meaning

Song Released: 2004

Blue Lyrics

I didn't want to know
I just didn't want to know
Best to keep things in the shallow end
Cause I never quite learned how to swim

I just didn't want to know
Didn't want, didn't want,
Didn't want, didn't want

Close my eyes just to look at...

1. anonymous

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   Dec 8th 2007 !⃝

   Anyone remember the Kitty Genovese story a few years back. A women who was murdered outside her apartment while 40 people watched and did nothing. The killing took over 30 minutes and no one intervened or even called the police. Great media coverage though. This isn't a direct metaphor to that incident, but similar.
   
   People will watch others die, and enjoy it. They'll "sit and stare at you" as you drown (turn blue). In this song, he doesn't want to know how to swim to save this drowning person. He's too afraid to save her, despite nothing to fear. And the regret that follows, the drugs to forget
   
   Maybe watching someone kill themselves with drugs or alcohol. I've seen it. We all just assume they are going to be fine. We watch them gradually "drown" themselves with their intoxicant and being to afraid to help people. Sounds sick but its a common human trait and everyone is guilty of it.
2. anonymous

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   Feb 20th 2007 !⃝

   sorry if this is a waste of a post, but I couldn't not comment on the following: I just think it's funny how he says, "best to keep things in the shallow end, because I never quite learned how to swim..." when he really can't swim. It's on the commentary to 3 libras. Maybe he should heed his own advice and LEARN TO SWIM. jk.
3. anonymous

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   Feb 12th 2007 !⃝

   I think this song is about how gossiping and rumors can destroy relationships because Keenan talks about how she's turning blue. When he refers to blue he's not talking about the color he's referring to his views of this person after the rumors he has heard tainted the relationship he once shared with this person. "just ignore the smoke and smile" is referring to his need to overcome these things he's heard, but he can't because he will never know whether or not they are true. Keenan also seems bitter towards this person. At the beginning it is subtle, but at the end the speaker realizes he will never view this person the same way again so he must kill him/her.

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4. anonymous

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   Sep 2nd 2006 !⃝

   I think this song is about a guy in serious denial about his girlfriends infidelity. "ignore the smoke and smile", like the saying 'where there's smoke there's fire'. All the signs were there but he refused to believe it. Then finally she's confronted with her infidelity and she starts to choke, in the way that she has no excuses, nothing left to say. Almost as if she's suffocating. Hence the blue colour in her face.
5. anonymous

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   Apr 15th 2006 !⃝

   Judging by the lyrics I would say Maynard is killing someone...
   "mistook the nods for an aprovale"(excuse my english)
   and he's killing someone by strangeling her, I mean she's turning blue...

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6. marthapx

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   Apr 11th 2006 !⃝

   I am making a music video in school for this song.. basically the guy singing sees his girlfriend but she seems mysterious, cold and unresponsive not noticing he is following her..leading you to beleive she is dead and this is her ghost but in reality he is the ghost and he doesn't want to accept it, so he actually doesn't know he is dead.

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7. anonymous

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   Feb 8th 2006 !⃝

   This song is quite simply about the overpowering numbness you feel when you lose a loved one, although this theme is really applicable to any situation where something occurs that you can't come to terms with. Hence "I don't want to know"

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